My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.